JANUARY
NAS Part III Flint Technology Course, Portsmouth
Part III Module: Ancient Technology
29th January 2005 with Phil Harding
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
FEBRUARY
NAS Advanced Diving Course, Middlesborough
Part III Module: Survey & Recording (IT credits possible)
19-20th February 2005
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
MARCH
NAS Part III Gun Technology Course, Woolwich Rotunda, London
Part III Module: Ancient Technology & Research
12-13th March 2005
Cost £140 to members, £155 to non-members.
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
NAS Part III Computer Aided Illustration Course, Guildford
Part III Module: Recording and IT
19th - 20th March 2005
Cost £120 to members, £135 to non-members.
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
APRIL
NAS Part III Underwater Photography Course, Portsmouth
Part III Module: Survey & Recording
9th-10th April 2005
Includes underwater practicals using both Sea & Sea analogue and Olympus digital cameras. Opportunity to get to grips with UK underwater conditions. Includes extensive course notes on CD-Rom
Cost £110 for members, £125 for non-members.
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
NAS Part III Ancient Technology Coracle Building, Cranborne, Dorset
Part III Module: Ancient Technology
23rd - 24th April 2005
Build a coracle, complete with paddle and foot plate and test it on a pond. Stay overnight in a hammock in a reconstructed iron age round house! Cost £100 for members, £115 for non-members.
MAY
NAS Part III Site Surveyor and Site Recorder, Portsmouth
Part III Module: Survey & Recording & IT
7th-8th May 2005
This course will be given by Peter Holt of 3H Consulting.
Cost £100 for members, £115 non-members.
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
JUNE
NAS Part III Bones (II), Portsmouth
Part III Module: Archaeological Science
12th June 2005
This course is the intermediate animal and human bones course. The pre-requesite for this course is the basic Part III Bones course. Cost £65. Contact NAS Training.
NAS Part III Excavation Course (Advanced Summer School), Portsmouth
Part III Module: Excavation, Survey & Recording
13th - 17th June 2005
Practical training in the use of Air-lift and Water-dredge.
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
Square Rig Sailing Course, Roskilda, Denmark
Part III Module: Ancient Technology
Contact Viking Ship Museum, Denmark. pn@vikingeskibsmuseet.dk Cost DKK 3500.
JULY
Coming soon: NAS Part III: Holistic Wreck Recording - getting the whole picture, Portsmouth
With NAS Training and Chris Wood (Seasearch National Co-ordinator - www.seasearch.org.uk)
30th-31st July 2005
This first colabrative course between the NAS and Seasearch will give participants a chance to combine both archaeologology and marine biology, through classroom theory and an open water dive in the Solent with Wittering Divers (www.witteringdivers.co.uk).
Syllabus and cost yet to be finalised, but pre-booking available. Contact the NAS office.
AUGUST
NEW COURSE: NAS Part III - Researching, recording and identifying submarine wrecks
With Innes McCartney
10th-12th August 2005
15th-17th August 2005
DAY 1: Fort Cumberland - History of submarine design and development
DAY 2: Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport - Tour of exhibits
DAY 3: Day 3: Diving out of Brighton on hardboat Spartacat
(see www.spartacat.co.uk)
It is hoped (subject to successful application under the Protection of Wrecks Act) to dive the protected submarine wreck of Holland 5, circa 1905.
RESTRICTIONS: These wrecks are at 30m depth and participants will
therefore be expected to be qualified and competent to dive to this depth.
Min qualification: BSAC Sports/PADI Advanced Openwater or equivalent. You
will be expected to be "dived up" before being allowed to dive and
competent at deploying a delayed SMB.
NAS RESERVES THE RIGHT TO STOP YOU
DIVING IF YOU ARE NOT SUITABLY PREPARED FOR THIS DIVE.
Cost:
These three day courses including diving will cost £199 per person and are
limited to 10 places due to space on the boat.(NOT INCLUDING
ACCOMMODATION). The 3 day options have now SOLD OUT - reserve list only.
There are an addition 2 places are available to attend just the first two days
on the 10th-12th and 4 places left for the 15th-16th (without the diving) for £100.
SEPTEMBER
NAS Part III Dendrochronology Course, Portsmouth
Part III Module: Archaeological Science
10th - 11th September 2005
Nigel Nayling from the University of Wales, Lampeter returns to Fort Cumberland to run the very popular Dendrochronology course. Includes laboratory time, visit to nearby forest and diving session on the Elizabethan wreck timbers in Horsea Island.
Cost £140 to members, £155 to Non-members
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
OCTOBER
NAS Part III Arrow Making Course (Ancient Technology), Cranborne, Dorset
Part III Module: Ancient Technology
8th - 9th October 2005
To include making the arrow heads, shafts, fletching and firing practice. This is the first NAS Arrow Making Course and it will probably sell out fast.
Cost £100 to members, £115 to Non-members
Sorry this course has SOLD OUT. Reserve list only.
NEW COURSE DATE: NAS Part III Excavation Course, Portsmouth
10th - 14th Oct 2005
Practical training in the use of Air-lift and Water-dredge. There are only 8 spaces on this course so book early. MEMBERS PRICE: £350. Please contact NAS Training.
NOVEMBER
NEW COURSE DATE: NAS Advanced Diving Course, Middlesborough
Part III Module: Survey & Recording (IT credits possible)
19-20th November 2005
Cost £150 to members, £165 to Non-members
NAS Part III First Aid for Finds, with the Mary Rose Trust, Portsmouth
Part III Module: Conservation
26th-27th November 2005
Cost £120 to members, £135 to Non-members
Syllabus yet to be finalised, but booking available. Contact the NAS office.
DECEMBER
NAS Part III Wreck Research, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Part III Module: Research and IT
Friday 9th December 2005
This session will give participants an opportunity to search the National Maritime Museum achives in search of that illusive plan drawing or photograph with the staff of the NMM. Let the NAS office know if there is a particular vessel that you are researching. Cost £40. Contact NAS Training.
NEW COURSE: British Naval Artillery from the Mary Rose to the Victory: A technological and historical background, Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich
Part II Module: Research and IT
Saturday 10th December 2005
This one day course will provide a technological and historical framework of the artillery of the British Navy from the 16th to the early 19th century. Although it can be taken on its own it will be especially useful to those who have attended, or who are considering attending, the NAS Cannon Identification course.
It will cover the manufacture of all types of wrought iron, bronze and cast-iron artillery, their makers and founders, gun supply to the Navy, the changing nature of ships armaments over time, gunnery and tactics as well as a brief survey of wrecks of British ships and what their assemblages reveal.
The tutors will be Ruth Rhynas Brown and Robert Douglas Smith. Ruth has published extensively on British artillery, particularly from 1600-1820. Robert has concentrated on the early history of ordnance up to 1600, specializing in the production and use of wrought-iron guns. Cost: £80 to members / £95 to non-members. Contact NAS Training.
For a PDF version of the NAS Training 2005 Course Programme,
please click here.
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